Ottawa Ambassadors Cohort 4

Angeley Constant

She/Her (S/H)

Angeley Constant

She/Her (S/H)

Emnet Melkie

Alexia Miron

Kahlan Miron

Kiemia Rezagian

KIEMIA

BUILD PROGRAM BIO

I want to better understand the powers of different jurisdictions and understand if and how radical action is possible in and around our current political systems. I'd like to see our democratic system completely reconsider and reimagine itself — democracy for who when the country was built on land theft, murder, and colonization? With ancestry from what is now a country that is deeply non-democratic, I comparatively value Canada's democratic system, however to move toward a healthy democracy for everyone that rights Canada's systemic wrongs, I think we must understand Canada's origins, accept today's landscape, and collaboratively build appropriate, localized governance structures.

Kiemia’s experiential learning focused on municipal advocacy and education:

- Organizing a town hall to educate her community on participatory budgeting

- Worked with public transit advocacy and environmental groups

- Planning to continue involvement in community organizing at a municipal level around public engagement with city hall

Mikaela Smith

COHORT 4

ENVIRONMENT

Letters to the Land

Through a facilitated writing workshop (closed for BIPOC) (“Reroot”) as well as an open community showcase (“Revival”), this project encourages participants to vision a future together that supports & prioritizes the healing and recovery of BIPOC communities, lands, and knowledge.